A companion to Alfred Hitchcock /

"Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and contexts, influenc...

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Other Authors: Leitch, Thomas M., Poague, Leland A., 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:Wiley Online Library.
Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and contexts, influences, and collaborators, on the other. A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock authoritatively maps the body of work generated in response to the director and his films, compiling essays from some of the world's most noted scholars in the emerging field of Hitchcock studies"--
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 610 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781444397321
144439732X
9781444331981 (electronic bk.)
1444331981 (electronic bk.)
9781405185387 (Cloth)
1405185384 (Cloth)